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2024
My Year in Books
6,970
pages read
19
books read


Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence by Elsa Dorlin
Shortest Book
200
pages
The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan
Longest Book
696
pages

Average book length in 2024
366
pages

Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk
Most Shelved
144,097
people also shelved
Chicago House Music by Marguerite L. Harrold
Least Shelved
86
people also shelved

Carol’s average rating for 2024
4.0
really liked it
4.0

The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.60 average

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Carol’s first review of the year

really liked it
I agree with most of the criticisms of this book but I loved it.

䴡鰿’S 2024 BOOKS
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng
it was amazing
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti
Lean on Me by Lynne Segal
Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence by Elsa Dorlin
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan
The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Disordered Attention by Claire Bishop
Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang
My Parents by Aleksandar Hemon
The Missing Thread by Daisy  Dunn
Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk
it was amazing
The Reckoning by Robin Blackburn
The Artificial Man and Other Stories by Clare Winger Harris
The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir
Chicago House Music by Marguerite L. Harrold
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
really liked it

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

Carol’s last review of the year

really liked it
I never read Magic Mountain because it sounds insufferable. With this book, Tokarczuk tells me I am probably right, and re-writes Mann's novel for women (Ha).

While I am not in love with any of Tokarczuk's novels yet, I am fascinated by what she writes about, specifically the deep history of the land that is, used to be, or is intertwined historically with Poland. Her books are like trudging through a few inches of newly fallen snow: sometimes lov
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